Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-27

| MRS. MAN WON BhEh.
/ reside at the corner of Seventh
and Fort streets. / know Haiti,
| Woolsteen. l became acquainted
with her at the house of Mrs. Dillon
about two months ago. | was livin.
there. Hattie and her sister occupied
room there too. They we're livin,
there when | came. ! saw DR.. Har
lan once when | went with Hattie tC
his office to have her teeth filed.
saw Hattie the last time on the l0tl
| of October. She came up to see me
in the afternoon. l do not remember
if she said anything about DR.. Harlan
The landlady Mrs. Maloney, was il
the room. Hattie had
A LARGE SOLITAIRE
| On her finger. | wanted to look at it
but she said it was wished on and she
did not want me to remove it. 1t was
a heavy gold ring with a large dia.
mond. At the time l resided at Mrs
Dillon's / believe Hattie had some
gentlemen" company-notm much.
never saw her with that ring before
She had it on the third finger of the
right hand, | believe-or the lett,
don't recollect now. She did not say
how long she had had the ring, and
| do not believe that she told where
she had got it. She seemed very
lively. l have never seen DR.. Harlan
at 5l4 Fort street, but Hattie has told
me that he had called to see her there.
DR.. Bird recalled, said that he could
not positivel, state when he had first
seen Harlan's diamond ring, but he
thought it was two months before his
disappearance. He had never missed
it from Harlan's finger afterwards.
HATrIEs' DREssMAKER.
Mrs. Mary Ferguson: l have seen
Hattie Woolsteen few times. Think
l saw her the first time on the first OF
this month, and the last time on a
Saturday. was making dress for
her and she called for it, TIE mate
rial for the dress was brought by her
on the first day OF the week, and on
Saturday, the Sth, she called for it and
paid me $40. She spoke about giving
me some more work. | believe that
she said the material was black satin.
She told me during the week that her
aunt. her sister and her uncle intended
to give her black satin. l could not
say if she wore jewelry CT not.
MRS. DEBORAH CoAKLEY.
l reside at 5l4 Fort street. l know
Hattie Woolsteen slightly. l have now
charge Of the house at 5l4 Fort street.
do not know DR.. Harlan. recollect
the papers speaking about him. After
the disappearance of Harlan, on the
following / saw Hattie wear Il
ring. She said nothing about
it to me or to any one else in my pres
cnce. The ring had but one stone,
She wore it on the third finger OF the
left hand. had never seen it before.
HARLAN's ASSISTANT.
DR.. Horace Shinn: have known Dir.
Harlan, the dentist, about eight
His office was at % s. Spring
street. l took charge of it when he
was away. saw him the last time on
Thursday evening, about three weeks
ago. 1t was about the 9th of October.
1t was about six O'Clock in the even
ing. He lett me on Spring street, stat
ing that he was going to see Miss Wool
steen. parted with him in front of the
Brunswick saloon and he walked
towards First street. 1t was just
dark. | saw no one bring him note
in the afternoon at the Office, but l
saw him there with note in his
hand. (Witness describes the watch
and chain worn by Harlan on that
evening and Identifies the Tiffany"
watch and guard.) He had a diamond
ring on that evening on his little fin
ger. 1t contained a large diamond.
l had seen him with it, | should
Judge, about six weeks. He also had
a diamond horseshoe locket, contain
ing five or six stones, but one was
missing. He wore glass pin, in imi-
tation of a diamond, stuck sideways
in his necktie. He wore Il dark suit
OF clothes, with a red check and a
broad brimmed, white hat. l had
seen Harlan talk to Hattie in the Of
flee three or four times, l believe.
Dental work had been done for her
there. Sometimes the doctor would
have his ring in "soak' and then take
it out again after few days. He
pawned it twice, once with DeGarmo
and once with party did not know.
(Witness describes the sleeve buttons
and identifies them.)
Cross-examined-I suppose | spent
two.thirds Of my time working in Har-
lan's office. / did not see him every
day. 1 saw this watch several times.
He had another watch. He had it in
a loan office here. l loaned him $50
to redeem it. On this watch (the
tiffany he had loaned a fellow $40.
1 don't know his name; would know
him if 1 saw him again. On Wednes-
day noon he told me he was going to
Whittier and l did not see him any
more that day. On Thursday saw
him at the Office at IL O'Clock in the
morning. AT half-past he went out,
came back in about twenty minutes
and we went out to supper together.
Afterwards he left me at the Bruns-
wick and said he was going to see
Hattie. saw the ring previous to
Thursday evening most every day.
When he did not have it on did not
always know where it was. | saw the
ring on his hand on Thursday, l am
sure of that. cannot fix any other
particular day. l think he pawned
the ring with De Garmotwo weeks pre-
vious to that Thursday and redeemed
it in three days. The third time Hat
tie came to the office was to so out
driving with Harlan to Whittier.
Hattie called once with her sis
ter. They remained about ten
IN inutes. That was two weeks before
the trip to Whittier. The first ii me
ever saw her in the Office was three
weeks previous to the Doctors disap.
pearance. A week after that first oc-
casion she called with her sister.
carried the Doctors own watch on the
day of his disappearance. / pawned
it for $40 afterwards. l would not
swear that there was a diamond lock-
ct on his watch chain on Thursday
evening. The watch he wore was
similar to this one (the Tiffany